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Export for YouTube
First, let me say I am learning Premiere so if I ask a dumb question, I apologize. I haven’t made it all the way through the book yet.
I have edited down some speeches that a client wishes to post on YouTube. Since I am a beginner to publishing video to the web, I’m not savvy about codecs and all.
If my video is 10 minutes long, what export settings can I use to get my video under the 100mb allowance? I find that so far it is all trial and error to see how small I can get my file. Is there a way to check a projected file size ‘before’ I export?
Anyone here have some experience with this?
Help is much appreciated!
Julie
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8 Replies
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A perennial problem nowadays.
You need to Export using Adobe Media Encoder. Select
the appropriate/latest Windows Media Encoder codec
(probably ‘9’ something) in your version of PPro,
and that you’ve correctly selected the PAL ot NTSC version.Ideally, your output dimension sized should be 300-something x….
as opposed to anything bigger.Selecting ‘two pass’ will double the length of encoding
time but the quality will be better.10 minutes should encode at around 50-80megs, as a
.wmv file.Final tip: if your project/films are 16:9, export
your film(s) once as DVAVI, reimport it into a 4:3 project
and shrink it to 76% to create a 16:9 project inside
a 4:3 window. The reason for this, is that, YouTube
is unable to display 16:9 films in their native
ratio.There’s a lot to take in within the Media Encoder because
it also does MPEG encoding for DVD, Quicktime, HD stuff
etc., so take it slowly.Good luck,
Darren.myspace.com/xgfmedia
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Also: the output file size will be displayed at the bottom
of your ‘save as’ window.D.
myspace.com/xgfmedia
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My so-so experience with wmv led me to try Export Movie – quicktime. Much better. QT. sorensen3 ( all I have), 15 fps, progressive, keep movinbg the qality slider down – doesnt take taht long to encode. Audio takes up a huge part of the file – go to mono, then 24khz rather tah 48. But yes, it takes experimenting to get it just under 100mb. or just set teh maintain data rate box. 320×240 at 300 kilo bytes per second looks good to me when uploaded. Faster to encode than wmv as well.
You can calculate file size from seconds times datarate of course, with an allowance for audio. 60 seconds at 1500 kilo bits per second (300 kilo bytes per second) is .9 megabytes 10 minutes is 90 mega bytes. Plus audio.
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I use Sorensen squeeze. Much better encoding than Premiere for web video. I can squeeze a 2.5gb movie into a nice viewable 12mb file. Keep in mind YouTube has a 10 minute max, and it takes forever to upload a 10 minute video. YouTube has cause more than it’s share of problems on my system trying to upload video. I like DivX Stage 6 much better.
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Also – as I discovered reading the back issues of Cow
magazine last night – YouTube doesn’t recompress Flash
video (FLV) if it’s under 100megs. Forget the exact
details now (aside from ver.7 and Sorenson codec) but
hopefully MySpace does the same, which will mean losing
the WMVs altogether. H.264 doesn’t fair well at YouTube
either, alas.Darren.
myspace.com/xgfmedia
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What is the benefit of flv? More control? Higher bit rate than they would give? One less re-compression? Strange image sizes? Makes sense though. Has anyone tried? Got a link?
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‘Control’ is the key word, George, yeh. I haven’t tried
myself yet – am too busy actually making the films. 😉Sign up for COW Magazine and download the back issues
(it’s all free). I forget which issue the FLV on YouTube
stuff is in (I’ll find out if you want) but it’s a useful
read in any case – although in the PDF version I do find
myself asking ‘Where do the advertisments end and the
articles begin?’Darren.
myspace.com/xgfmedia
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It’s the March/April issue – and here is a link – but it seems that Youtube has changed since then – so the link is actually to a retraction – https://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/new_read_post.cgi?forumid=20&postid=857405
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